This project is created to convert open source materials to kindle supported format (.mobi)

The conversion is limited to open source licensed books. This project does not include any generated .mobi files and only includes the .recipe file for Calibre.

About calibre recipes

Calibre is a free electronic book management tool. It allows the generation of e-book through scraping RSS or HTML contents. It can be done through a Calibre recipe (in Python). For more details of Calibre recipe kindly refer to Calibre Manual

List of Recipes in calibre-recipes Folder

English

AOSABook.recipe - The Architecture of Open Source Applications
Android_Studio_Development_Essentials.recipe - Android Studio Development Essentials
Computer_Science_from_the_Bottom_Up.recipe - Computer Science from the Bottom Up
CS183_Peter_Thiel.recipe - Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup
Designing_Evolvable_Web_APIs_with_ASP_NET.recipe - Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET
Dive_Into_Python_3.recipe - Dive Into Python 3
Explore_Flask.recipe - Explore Flask
Forecasting_Principles_and_Practice.recipe - Forecasting Principles and Practice
Game_Programming_Patterns.recipe - [Game Programming Patterns] (http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com)
Git_Pocket_Guide.recipe - Git Pocket Guide
High_Performance_Browser_Networking.recipe - High Performance Browser Networking
House_Transcripts.recipe - House Transcripts
Interactive_Data_Visualization_for_the_Web.recipe - Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
Introduction_to_Linux.recipe - Introduction to Linux
Learn_Python_the_Hard_Way.recipe - Learn Python The Hard Way, 3rd Edition
Learn_Vimscript_the_Hard_Way.recipe - Learn Vimscript the Hard Way
Mastering_Perl.recipe - Mastering Perl
Nature_of_Code_the.recipe - The Nature of Code
Programming_JavaScript_Applications.recipe - Programming JavaScript Applications
Python_Cookbook.recipe - Python Cookbook
SICP.recipe - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Test_Driven_Web_Development_with_Python - Test-Driven Web Development with Python
Interactive_Data_Visualization_for_the_Web - Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
Free_as_in_Freedom - Free as in Freedom
The_Definitive_Guide_to_Yii_2.0.recipe - The Definitive Guide to Yii 2.0
Tutorials_about_Development_for_Android.recipe - Tutorials about Development for Android

Simplified Chinese

A_Mathematical_Theory_of_Communication.recipe - 通信的数学理论
Android_Training_Course_In_Chinese.recipe - Android官方培训课程中文版
AngularJS_Tutorial_Cn.recipe - AngularJS入门教程
Extending_and_Embedding_PHP_zh_CN.recipe - PHP扩展开发及内核应用
Git_Community_Book.recipe - Git Community Book 中文版
Learn_Vimscript_the_Hard_Way_Zhcn.recipe - 笨方法学Vimscrpt 简体中文版
Pro_Git_ZH.recipe - Pro Git 简体中文版

Usage

GUI

Install Calibre Download
Go to Fetch news, Load recipe from file to add your recipe.
Go to Fetch news, Schedule news download, Custom, select the recipe added in step 1 and click Download Now
For more details, kindly refer to Calibre Manual

Terminal

Install Calibre
- Archlinux
```
pacman -S calibre
```
- Debian/Ubuntu
```
apt-get install calibre
```
- RedHat/Fedora/CentOS
```
yum -y install calibre
```
- Mac OSX - Requires [Command Line Tool] (http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/cli-index.html)。
Execute the following command in calibre-recipes folder

If you want to generate all books, just run make, e.g.
```
make
```
Otherwise to generate mobi for a specific book, run
```
make xxx.mobi
```
For example
```
make AOSABook.mobi
```
Internally, this will run
```
ebook-convert AOSABook.recipe AOSABook.mobi
```
It will generate AOSABook.mobi in the same folder.

Contributing

Please read the CONTRIBUTING document.